Auburn California-1939: White Rooster Walking Around

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationAuburn, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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White Rooster Walking Around — Clip Details

A white rooster with a bright red comb walks across a dirt yard in this 8mm home movie from Auburn, California, 1939. The footage captures the bird strutting past a wooden fence, its feathers catching the sunlight in the warm, golden light of a rural backyard. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 film adds authentic vintage charm, with natural shadows and a quiet, pastoral atmosphere. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century farm life, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-accurate storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013449

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Auburn, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural California or farm-life edits needing a brief animal cutaway from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The dirt yard, wooden fencing, harsh sunlight, and backyard poultry may show a small domestic or rural setting consistent with the 1939 Auburn metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a rooster moving through the yard without staging, preserving a quiet household moment rather than a formal animal portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white rooster, red comb, dirt ground, wooden fence slats, strong shadows, scattered debris, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, warm fading, uneven exposure, soft focus, and contact-print edge darkness that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, rural transition, animal cutaway, or memory beat within a period home-life sequence.
Historical context: The footage places domestic poultry in an outdoor yard setting, offering visual context for everyday household or small-farm surroundings.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-context questions still require normal source review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California 8mm rooster footage, white rooster in dirt yard, vintage poultry home movie, and rural backyard animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Auburn 1939 material, then broader 1930s rural California or poultry-yard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

White rooster with a red comb in a sunlit dirt yard, from 1939 Auburn, California 8mm home-movie footage. — A white rooster stands in a sunlit dirt yard beside wooden fencing.

A white rooster moves near the edge of a dirt yard in 1939 Auburn, California home-movie footage. — The rooster passes near the right side of the yard, partly cropped by the frame.

White rooster struts across a sunlit dirt yard in Auburn, California, according to the 1939 clip metadata. — A white rooster walks across the yard, its red comb bright against the shaded background.

The rooster moves through a shadowed dirt yard with wooden fence patterns visible in 1939 Auburn footage. — The rooster continues across the yard as fence shadows fall across the ground.

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